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TO: Mayor Richard C. Irvin
FROM: Robert Leible, Superintendent of Water Production
DATE: August 15, 2024
SUBJECT:
A Resolution authorizing the City to accept a grant award of $101,790.00 under a grant agreement between the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency Office of Energy and the City of Aurora.
PURPOSE:
To obtain City Council approval for acceptance of grant funding via the Public Water Supply Energy Efficiency Grant Program, agreement No. 25-3312-PWS24101, for the Water Production Division.
BACKGROUND:
The Public Water Supply Energy Efficiency Grant Program offered grant funding for the development and completion of energy efficiency projects at public water supply facilities. The original source of funding is federal via the US Department of Energy Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) fund. The purpose of this grant program is to enable units of local government to make energy efficiency upgrades to equipment identified from an energy audit. The Water Production Division previously identified a project that was a good fit for such funding support. The grant agreement/document is attached.
The awarded funding will support the costs for the upsizing of one finished water pump at the water treatment plant. More specifically, High Pressure Pump #1 was previously identified to be upsized from its original design capacity in order to increase the available capacity to pump finished water to the high pressure portion of the water distribution system. The grant funding will reimburse project costs associated with 1) purchasing a new pump for the increase in capacity; 2) acquisition of a larger horsepower motor for the pump, and 3) contracted electrical work to upgrade/modify the electrical system to accommodate the larger pump/motor combination as well as installation of variable frequency drive pump control.
DISCUSSION:
The grant will provide $101,790 under the agreement for allowable project costs between August 1, 2024 through Mar...
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